The Green Fairy Book, The Story of Caliph Stork, sentence 46

‘I would wager my beard, most gracious master,’ said the Grand Vizier, ‘that these two long legs will have a good chat together.

Who acts: I, Grand Vizier, two long legs · What happens: wager, say, have · To what, where: beard, good chat · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Caliph Stork. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, Grand Vizier, two long legs), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	‘	'	PUNCT	_	4 wager	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 wager	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 wager	aux
4	wager	wager	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 said	ccomp
5	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 beard	nmod:poss
6	beard	beard	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wager	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 master	punct
8	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	9 gracious	advmod
9	gracious	gracious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 master	amod
10	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 beard	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 wager	punct
12	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 wager	punct
13	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 Vizier	det
15	Grand	grand	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 Vizier	amod
16	Vizier	Vizier	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 said	nsubj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 have	punct
18	‘	'	PUNCT	_	25 have	punct
19	that	that	SCONJ	_	25 have	mark
20	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	23 legs	det
21	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	23 legs	nummod
22	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 legs	amod
23	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 have	nsubj
24	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 have	aux
25	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 said	conj
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 chat	det
27	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 chat	amod
28	chat	chat	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 have	obj
29	together	together	ADV	_	25 have	advmod
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	wager	would	I	my beard and gracious master		vn bill-54.5-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent beard=Recipient
2	say speech: assert	past	the Grand Vizier			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	have	future	this two long legs	a good chat	together property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chat=Patient

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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